Happy Cinco de Mayo

For Cinco de Mayo I made margarita cupcakes with salted lime frosting. Rather than using milk in my recipe, I switched it out for Mr & Mrs T margarita mix (I also threw a splash of tequila in there for the proper margarita taste). The frosting was buttercream which I made with lime juice and ground some Himalayan sea salt on top. My test batch was better (in my opinion) but regardless the cupcakes were delicious and were gone within an hour.

Final batch of cupcakes brought into work!

Friday night test batch

Test batch!

Decadent...fruity...cupcakes

Blueberry cupcakes with white chocolate frosting drizzled with chocolate ganache. I replaced some of the milk in my recipe with the juice from pureed blueberries - which totally made the cupcakes a grey color. The frosting was warm when I piped it onto the cupcakes so it melted all over the cupcakes, but it worked really well.

They were all eaten within an hour and a half when I brought them into work - so I'd call that a massive success!

Pretty cupcakes (despite the fact that they were grey)

Key Lime Perfection

Key lime cupcakes with whipped mascarpone cream frosting. Best idea ever. They were so light in texture and flavor that they complemented the heat wave we're in nicely.